Towards a New Map of AfricaBen Wisner, Camilla Toulmin, International Institute for Environment, Rutendo Chitiga Routledge, 23/05/2012 - 373 من الصفحات 'The big, era-defining questions and, at last, the subtle, tenable answers, teased out without clich or compromise. A vital volume at a critical moment.' 'This book dispels the myth of a uniformly hopeless, hungry continent. It shows just how extraordinarily diverse Africa is and how much it has changed in the last 20 years.Full of fresh thinking on problems that face Africa and new African approaches to development.' This ground-breaking book, with a foreword by former President of Ireland (199-997) and UN Human Rights Commissioner (1997 2002) Mary Robinson, uniquely distils the complex issues surrounding Africa at the beginning of the 21st century. African and Western scholars provide a fascinating 'map' for the reader to navigate between issues such as urban and rural livelihoods, the potential of fresh water fishing, health, the HIV/AIDS crisis, conflict and efforts at peacemaking. Also included are critical assessments of Africa's role in the global economy, the growth of regional economic cooperation within Africa, the influence of ethnicity on the continent's politics, the evolution of its political institutions, and the impact of Africa's legal systems on its development. A substantial introductory essay by the editors measures the distance Africa has travelled and the lessons it has learned since Africa in Crisis, the classic Earthscan book, was published in 1985. Ben Wisner is visiting research fellow at DESTIN, London School of Economics and at Benfield Hazard Research Centre, University College London, and visiting professor of environmental studies, Oberlin College, USA. Camilla Toulmin is Director of the International Institute for Environment and Development. Rutendo Chitiga is a freelance writer and editor, and has a postgraduate degree in environment and development. |
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... famine, war and genocide in the Sudan, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic, especially in the Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes. Edna Wangui is an Assistant Professor at San Francisco State University, California. She holds a PhD in geography ...
... famine then scourging much of the continent. It forced people to take a new look at why the livelihoods of many millions of people were under threat and the need to move beyond immediate causes – the failure of the rains – to longer ...
... famines that hit the Sahel and Horn ofAfrica in the mid-1980s, Africa in Crisis was able to look back at an earlier Sahel famine (1967–73) and the war in Biafra (1968–70) in order to demonstrate Africa's capacity for recovery and ...